its based on random numbers Algorithm
and Time is used as seed
I'm having some problems to change my workspace background on Trisquel 7.
Using the Gnome defaul interface it's all right, but using flashback it's not
working.
help!
How is it generated?
Is sda1 really the root partition of the installed system (i.e., the
partition mounted at /)? If yes, then that command was OK:
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
You can then execute the following command to mount the virtual filesystems
(although I am not sure it is that essential):
$ for i in /d
for generate a good password
I make this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rosepasswordsgenerator/
Some great Free Software games for you:
-Red Eclipse (Like 'Halo')
-0AD (Like 'Civ5')
-Urban Terror (Like 'CS')
Modern game consoles are just computers that hook up to televisions.
If it has software updates, it's a computer. That's what separates a toaster
and a desktop. I actually use my spare
If the server that your ISP uses, that doesn't really effect your freedom. It
may harm the ISP's freedom, and perhaps your privacy, but it doesn't really
effect you.
It's their choice what they run on their servers, it doesn't really effect
the user's freedom. (Although privacy can come into
I use a Samsung GS2 with Replicant on it.
You can't say one thing and then do the other.
If you take the stance of the "Open-Source" fence-sitters, who say "It's
great if it's 'open-source', but it's alright if it's proprietary- in an
ideal world, though, all software would be open."
If you take that position, nothing will change, and
Hello Magic Banana. I appreciate your assistance.
First I altered the BIOS to boot first from the CD/DVD drive. (I made the
default first boot media the 2nd boot media.)
Here is what I tried tonight, from a terminal window in Trisquel 6 live cd
("try trisquel" option):
trisquel@trisquel:~$
I recently started using KeePassX. It's much easier to memorize one absurdly
long password than dozens of moderate-length passwords.
The only weakness of this method is that your passwords end up on your
clipboard. Not a problem if, like me, you reject all dynamically loaded
JavaScript, but
Interesting. I believe I have never played against hard AIs. It was already
pretty challenging against normal AIs (to be good at Freeciv, you need to
learn the odd of anything, the gain brought by every special land square, the
cost of every unit/building, ... and I do not play much!).
As y
Thanks for your help. I was able to figure it out without pulseaudio - I just
had to reconfigure VLC in the settings menu to use the correct sound card.
Now I need to find out how to get audio to work for videos in Abrowser.
Freedoom is just a WAD, so it doesn't "support multiplayer" in any meaningful
sense. At least one Doom engine that works with Freedoom does, though:
Odamex.
Personally, I like Xonotic better OpenArena.
You're wrong about Freeciv's AI not cheating:
"AI players in Freeciv operate in the server, partly before all clients move,
partly afterwards. Unlike the clients, they can observe the full state of the
game, including everything about other players. Additionally, Hard AI players
can see eve
I use Trisquel rather than Debian because:
-Some projects don't have binaries for Debian, but have ones for ubuntu
derivatives,, so you save time you would otherwise be spending compiling.
-PPAs work with Trisquel by default, no tweaking required.
-It doesn't have non-free repositories.
-My lap
Hm, that's interesting. I'm familiar with wxWidgets.
Could be that the 7-zip developers just didn't bother to write the GUI code
so it would work on non-Windows systems. Maybe they're using absolute
positioning instead of sizers, for example.
He's blind, so he doesn't see the icons.
I found out how to get to it from the traditional menu bar
(View->Toolbars->Customize). Not sure if it's accessible, though.
use a word or two words that are in no dictionary in the world (it is easy to
come with a few trust me), use numbers and special characters also.
I can come up with a pretty good passwd and remember it straight away in just
a few minutes of time (one or two minutes).
example - it would be no
There is "Debian LTS" now:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00082.html
Raphaël Hertzog, a Debian developer, is even partly paid to take care of
this support. There has been no promise to make every Debian version LTS
though (see the second question in the brief FAQ)
the thing i like about debian: performance! and stability
the thing I don't like about debian: even the most obvious and easy things on
bubbuntu and derivatives can get frustrating with debian if you are a noob.
I used it for several months and actually the few things I know how to do
when i
It makes no sense: the software behind the "autoremoved" packages was not
running and "autoclean" (or even "clean") only erases .deb files (nothing
that is executed).
Did you check RAM availability when the system was sluggish? If it was full
(maybe a program leaking memory), then the syste
yep. that is exactly what I thought! did you reboot the system? Because
autoremove and autoclean can't fix a DE but a reboot sometimes fixes some
lagging - It happened to me the first time I installed Trisquel: lagging like
a drunk horse, especially the terminal.. Then, one reboot later it wa
I am not convinced. Let say that the attacker knows that I use three random
words among those with at most five characters in
/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic (that is quite a piece of information!). There
are 12266 such words:
$ cut -d / -f 1 /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic | awk 'length
Its debatable that Debian Stable is more "stable" than an LTS release of
Ubuntu/Trisquel considering they both contain old package versions that have
been "frozen" and tested to get security updates without breaking the system.
You get point release updates instead of major releases during th
gparted is great
I agree with you about the tracking problem with all of our connected devices
(connected to either cellular or internet network)
Yes I think I got it worked out now! I did autoremove and autoclean, and it
seems like redundant packages are the culprit! :D
I have an old mobo and I never use it. except when it is absolutely
necessary. I keep the bat out of it and turn it on only when I need to use
it.. I leave it at home mostly.
And this is not because I do anything illegal or need to hide something. It
is because I know mobos are tracking devic
i think that the openmoko only runs free software(please correct me if i am
wrong!)
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
0ad is my favrote libre game (a real time statagy game)
http://play0ad.com/
for fps's openarena is very fun and uses the quake engine
theres also freedoom which uses the doom engine and i think supports
multiplayer
neverball is a very fun supermonkey ball like game
also if you like doodle ju
UGh! It lags every time! What do I do?
they are not..usually :)
i'll check it out. heard about it but never played
cheers
Problem solved :)
Well, let's deep dive into this question. Do you receive your internet
connection via a Wireless gateway that runs some proprietary code ?
My point is to see how deep we can go with the FSF principle, sorry if I seem
annoying with my questions :/
Wow, we're pretty anal today it seems... Now, let's see, first did he
distribute the software? He certainly didn't distribute an instance of the
program but he certainly did distribute information about and a link to the
program so I'd say that's a bit of a disputed call. Next up, if he
rec
I guess this thread might be somewhat related and I think interesting
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/some-blobs-more-equal-others
A similar and related question is whether art, music, etc should be free and
what that exactly means.
I don't recall seeing game consoles addressed directly in the GNU project or
FSF page, however, game consoles and “smart phones” are computers, so the
same thing applies for them than to desktop and laptop computers.
Furthermore, cell phones are the center of some user communications, so the
It says, "Please do not distribute, recommend, or support non-free software
here." tonlee did not do any of those.
I have no mobile phone.
And how do you deal with it ? (phones)
It seems that here (in this forum and the general Trisquel community) are
uncompromising about FOSS into computers. WHat are your phones, do they need
to run proprietary softwares ?
Thanks for the games alternatives, I'll check it ! I think in the end,
If your friends are high/drunk, Neverputt (in Trisquel's repository) is a lot
of fun too! :-)
oh jeez do i miss half life 2 !!!
Used to play a lot for some time a few years ago and I really miss some games
- I mean, when something is as good as hl (both 1 and 2) how can you not miss
it? :)
But I wanna stick with free software and I have emulators if I want to play
some oldskuul!
f
According to Bruce Schneier, "string together individual words like
'correcthorsebatterystaple' -- is no longer good advice".
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/choosing_secure_1.html
"But like our phones, we can't get ride of some proprietary software around
us"
is the openmoko not free?:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
that dvd is non-free software
also the fact you own it on a legal dvd is worse as your giving money to the
non-free developers
There are many free FPS. For instance, isn't the game play of "Enemy
Territory" similar to that of "Counter Strike"? If so, there is this game:
http://www.etlegacy.com
As for "Civilization", there is "FreeCiv" as a free alternative. It is in
Trisquel's repository. However, I believe the gam
When dealing with ethics there are always difficult decisions to be made. And
not making a decision is also making a decision (to not decide).
I think this discussion is pretty similar to the older open source/free
software debate. Or to some people saying that since you currently can't have
I play many kinds of games. It can be from Counter Strike (the team play here
is very interesting) to Civilization V, or soccer games like FIFA.
I realize that gaming like I consider it today is not compatible with FOSS.
What Stallman says into his article is that we need another way of gamin
The very first rule. As the link is a wiki page (isn't that pretty awesome?!)
it isn't as clearly spelled out as it once was.
This is great news, so glad to hear Trisquel is flourishing!
Thank you for sharing this here with us mere mortals as well! :)
I hope you can strike the correct balance between paranoia and naïveté
regarding the openness of the system, surely not an easy task. "Trust, but
verify" and all that
If you tell us the kinds of games you like, you may receive suggestions for
free software games.
I personally do not play much... but I love Hedgewars (Shoppa mode!). :-)
@lembas : this is clear :)
In my post, I was talking about one "positive" point revealed by Stallman
when he say "bring Windows users to GNU/Linux OS".
Yes, Steam on GNU/Linux means considering first convenience, then freedom.
His answer to my previous question is : do not play non free gam
Again, you do not have an nVidia card. You have a "S3 Graphics" that simply
may not support such a high resolution (did you search its technical
specifications?). If it actually does, then the Linux driver does not and,
given the popularity of the brand, it is extremely improbable that an
a
Either a program is free software or it is proprietary software. There
usually is no gray area when we talk about one single program. Steam clearly
is proprietary. It clearly is *not* "a good step in the FSF direction" (as
you wrote).
If you talk about an operating system, then things can b
Samsung (maker of the SyncMaster 2253BW) is of no help; explicitly - that's
what they say.
Search on "VESA configuration" returns information of interest only to
developers.
My "Displays" GUI lists only a few, lower resolutions.
Grub displays a very sharp, crisp extremely high resolution t
Here's Stallman on steam
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html
Honestly, the perfect system for me would be Debian with the policy of
trisquel.
gNewSense 4 "Ucclia" is coming soon: http://www.gnewsense.org
I recognize that Steam *is* evil (because of the DRMs on the games) but I was
just wondering how to not antagonize people from FOSS.
I understand all of your args and I agree with it because I have the same
relation with proprietary software. But I also know that sometimes, we have
to admit
I used both distributions for quite some time now.
From the freedom perspective, trisquel is a very convenient and save way to
run a 100% free OS.
In Debian, it's a bit annoying to check every add-on before installing, like
in your browser, or maybe also in your desktop environment.
Besides, D
I disagree. Cite the forum rule I am not upholding?
I can think of these:
- Trisquel doesn't promote the use of non-free software; Debian does.
- Ubuntu-based distributions, such as Trisquel, are more widely supported in
the non-free world due to its popularity and widespread adoption. It's worth
to note that .deb packages are not always compa
Actually that's the rules. [1] You could've just described your needs if any
beyond the topic,
Call it petty if you will but kindly refrain from doing it.
1 https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
I'm not very experienced with Trisquel, but one thing I noticed is that in
aptitude, things that require root ask for the user password to become root,
rather than for the root password (As aptitude in Debian 7.7 does). This is a
benefit if you're using sudo rather than su.
Trisquel is base
My parents (both accountants) have been happily using Trisquel for many years
(5-6 years I believe) on their desktop computer. I installed it as well as
the applications they wanted (GnuCash, Freeciv, etc.). I let the default
(very easy to use) desktop environment but customized it to their t
Do you mean pen tablets used for digital drawing, handwriting notes, or photo
retouching? If so, there is a built-in support for Wacom products in the
GNOME desktop environment (Main Menu → System Settings → Wacom Tablet).
I virtualize Debian and play around with it, but the advantages of Trisquel
for me are:
It's easier. I have a limited amount of time to spend with computers and a
lot of things I want to learn. The legwork of deblobbing the kernel and
cleaning the non-free software has already been done and
Don't talk to me about steam ! It's been preventing me to play skyrim for 2
or 3 years, although I own the game on a legal dvd...
I'm now gonna fix it thanks to wine and Gnu/linux.
Steam IS evil. I just think like magic banana.
We have to consider that it could make a lot of gamers (aka not av
Are there open source or free software usb digital writing pads?
Thanks Magic Banana. Yes, I am aware of the ethical and philosophical
advantages of Trisquel over Debian. So yes, my question assumes a "free"
Debian install where no non-free software repositories are used and so on. I
want to testdrive Debian to examine its user-friendliness for a non-exper
Rafi,
If I understand correctly, your proposal is that we free software supporters
agree to take “Steam” as a step that will (supposedly) help more users to
become aware of the problem of proprietary software and chose to switch to a
fully free system. If so, then I disagree strongly. Howev
None I guess. Although the defaults are different and a user may prefer
Trisquel's to Debian's, or the opposite.
I assume here that there is absolutely no freedom issue in your Debian
install. That is what you asked us to do. It is not that easy to achieve
though. Especially if the user is
S3 Graphics
That is not nVidia. That is, well, S3 Graphics! That company was
manufacturing video cards (with no 3D acceleration I believe) in the 90s. It
is possible that the card itself does not support the resolution you want! I
do not think there is any independent effort to make a Linux
that is petty lembas. I use the link to explain the feature I want to get in
a gnulinux program.
Thank you.
Telling them that Steam is the evil even on a GNU/Linux OS is not the right
way. Telling that it's a good step in the FSF direction is better.
Steam *is* evil. By itself. It is proprietary and, even worse, it implements
usage restrictions. You can't tell people about freedom in the digital wo
Assuming that a person installs Debian, but only the free software components
of it, what are the technical advantages of Trisquel over Debian?
Hi
I created an
[https://devel.trisquel.info/aklis/package-helpers/blob/backport-xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/helpers/make-xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
user backport] with the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau from ubuntu utopic,
version 1:1.0.11
You can add this line to sources.list:
deb
http:
Here is a link about what is a good password (not only hard to break, i.e.
long, but easy to remember too):
http://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usability
Here is a way to generate a good password with three American-English words
of at most five characters each (you can obviou
almost no nvidia card will work properly on trisquel.
the same goes with ati.
integrated intel graphics cards work well!
That driver (I guess it actually is a firmware) certainly is non-free.
Otherwise Trisquel would distribute it as well.
I do not know what is this "advanced" thing. I do not remember having that
(and do not want to reboot just to see).
It is common to have an entry where the kernel is booted with the keyword
'single'. It directly brings a root terminal. It is called the "recovery
mode" because it aims to rep
Magic Banana asked:
> I am confused. Do you like sudo's losing of the administrative permissions
after some time? Then why do you want a root user?
Aha. Only because of that bug in HPLIP wherein it asked for my root password
when it wanted to go to a third-party (actually an HP site) locati
>If 'sudo' does not precede a command requiring >administrative privileges
(the last command you show us) >then the command is aborted. You do *not*
"run as >Administrator all the time".
Thanks god for that! I mean that is the essence of the gnu sec!
Doing administrative tasks with sudo is n
As I already wrote: there is no security when the attacker has a physical
access to the hardware. He can read the disk in a variety of ways... as long
as the data are unencrypted. Automatic login and an absence of locking after
inactivity make no
difference for a remote attack. As a consequen
You may not believe this, but I have been trying to understand the system. I
was a long-time (ca. 15 years) debian user who never had any difficulties
with using sudo and who doesn't even remember having to do anything as root.
I got along fine with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrad
Change is never sudden and it takes time and knowledge. Sometimes all it
takes is the awareness that the current way of doing is not the right way.
That's how I switched to gnu from windblowz 7 - i had a "fu.k, I can't take
this sh.t anymore!" moment - so frustrated I became with that nonsens
I am confused. Do you like sudo's losing of the administrative permissions
after some time? Then why do you want a root user?
"root" cannot be a limited user. It always is the name of a user with *all*
permissions. If you give a password to the user "root" then you end up on a
system where
Regarding Magic Banana's comment:
> ... there is a good chance that george chose weaker passwords!
You betcha ! I'm betting that my router's security gives me the degree of
protection that I need.
How secure is the "automatic login" feature ? If that has some security, then
I can upgrade m
The 7-Zip GUI uses WxWidgets, it is available on non-Windows systems
too. Parabola has it.
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Recently I gave up on a couple of other distro's wherein I could not get the
attached monitor to reach its native reolution of 1680x1050 pixels, which I
had been able to see with a debian ditribution until its Nvidia video card
broke. I retired that computer. The "new" computer is the trouble
You should really listen to what people here are telling you: we are in
complete *disagreement*:
You thought that the GRUB password was too weak and I answered that you do
not need any password at all;
You thought that administration through 'sudo' is unsafe and I answered that
it is more s
Your user "george" has administrative privileges as long as he preceded his
commands with 'sudo'. Whenever he does that his password is asked unless he
executed another command with 'sudo' little time ago. If 'sudo' does not
precede a command requiring administrative privileges (the last comm
Hi all,
I'm a GNU/Linux user/lover, I like trying many distros (Mint, Fedora, Debian,
Manjaro, etc...) just to see the difference between them and find the right
one for me.
I write this post after seeing some other posts about Steam OS and Trisquel
users' thought on it.
I'd like to say f
Waitaminnit ... Magic Banana said:
> Anyway you can get a root terminal if you wish:
>> $ sudo -i
That's nice to know, though I'd be scared to use it; that fifteen (or five)
minute rule is a good safeguard for us forgetful sudo-user folks.
> You can even get a root user if you really want to
(cross-post from trisquel-devel mailing list)
Hi
A lot of things happened since my last mail, so here is an update:
- Our gitlab instance is now published, and working. The registration is open
to anyone[1], instead of a per-user basis as I said in my first mail.
We got some user contributi
Just a note: My reply #5 was started before #4 came to light, but finished
after that, so I didn't read it before publishing my #5 reply. That said, we
seem to be in complete aggreement.
I switched to the "advanced" mode on rebooting by using "grub" as the
username and that # password, and it presented me with another Trisquel
bootup, where I just added my usual "george" password at login ... outwardly
nothing different.
Running in standard mode, this is what I had seen
There are several. Gparted is graphical, “fdisk -l” is for the command
line and is not interactive (Example usage: “fdisk -l /dev/sdb”), cfdisk
is for the command line and interactive.
You will need to run these programs as root to get all the data the system
makes available; but don't run
Where exactly are you stuck? Here are various ways to fix Trisquel from a
live system:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#Fixing_a_Broken_System
I would personally go the 'chroot' way because it is what I have always done
(and it reminds me of my installation of Gentoo some
The GRUB password only is useful at the bootloader, before any operating
system is booted. If you have access to the bootloader interface, then you
have a physical access to the computer and there basically is no security
(you can boot a live system and do whatever you want). In other words,
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